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Quinn, Paul C.; Bhatt, Ramesh S. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2001
Reflects on Needham's findings on infants' object recognition and segregation. Examines the role for perceptual bias in explaining infant performance, places Needham's studies in historical perspective, and assesses their theoretical significance. Discusses the merits of positing different kinds of information sources for object segregation, and…
Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Classification, Cognitive Development
Halford, Graeme S. – 1996
Explicit representation of relations plays some role in virtually all higher cognitive processes, but relational knowledge has seldom been investigated systematically. This paper considers how relational knowledge is involved in some tasks that have been important to cognitive development, including transitivity, the balance scale, classification…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Children, Classification, Cognitive Processes